But just because Lovelace is the city's most successful female coach in a male league, and has won three city championships with the Boys & Girls High School basketball team, doesn't mean she isn't excited about what Becky Hammon accomplished when she guided the San Antonio Spurs' summer-league team to a championship this week. "I am so proud of it and I'm sure it's going to open a lot of doors," Lovelace said Thursday.
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York Studios will keep its 40,000-square foot space in Maspeth, while expanding to a new 10-acre lot in Bronx thanks in part to a massive tax benefit from the city. The city recently approved a $33 million conditional tax benefits package to greenlight a Queens-based film studio's expansion to the Bronx, officials said.
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The funeral procession for John Gotti makes its way down 101 Ave. in Ozone Park Queens past Gotti's old hang out the Bergen Fish Club where it was met by hundreds. The floral tributes stood high above the polished cabs of the flatbed limousines, thrilling each of us with a taste for the grotesque.
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Mob boss John Gotti was laid to rest yesterday after a farewell procession of black stretch limousines and floral tributes symbolizing the life of a made man: a royal flush, a martini glass and racehorses. His admirers gathered by the hundreds and, undaunted by Gotti's record as a murderer, tossed red roses onto a Cadillac hearse that bore his remains.
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Three African American civilian employees of the NYPD sued the department and their supervisors Thursday claiming that brass discriminate against minorities by denying them promotions to better paying jobs in the motor fleet division. David Binyard of Queens and two Brooklyn residents, Ricky Davis and Tyrone Taylor, say in court papers that they had extensive experience before being hired by the city about a decade ago as auto service workers in the NYPD's Maspeth facility.
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Brooklyn: Jolie Milstein writes, "Rising construction costs and unprecedented land prices are making it even harder to build the housing that most New Yorkers need" . A look around downtown Brooklyn, where there is an unprecedented building boom going on, does not lend credence to that statement.
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Germantown, Md.: Re "Court OKs bus posters that hit Islam for 'killing Jews' " : Does the right to free speech mean the right to be hateful? In her effort to "stop the Islamization of America," Pamela Geller has taken out anti-Islam ads on buses and subway stations in major cities for the last few years. Geller says she wants to make Americans aware of her claim that Islam is anti-Semitic and a religion of violence.
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Manhattan: The NYPD should stop arresting and hassling artists in the subway. Instead, the MTA should hire the artists to distract us from how long we're waiting for our trains, how decrepit the stations are and how there are too few benches so that most of us have to stand.
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The city has spent $114 million so far this season on snow removal, busting its budget after more than two dozen storms. The spending so far is nearly double the $60.3 million budgeted for snow, and does not include cleaning up the first day of spring storm that hit the city last Friday, Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia told the City Council Wednesday.
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After transferring to Maspeth HS from New York Harbor School on Governor's Island last year, Tamer and the rest of the Argonauts were forced to play their third season in the PSAL's developmental league, even though Maspeth coach Anastasia Bitis told the PSAL the Argonauts were too good and deserved to be in the 'B' division. That extra year of waiting made Saturday's championship even sweeter for the Argonauts, as Maspeth completely dominated Frederick Douglass Academy III, 57-42, at Baruch College for a title in its first year as a varsity program.
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Banana Kelly High School has a 42.5% graduation rate and 69% of the teachers there have fewer than three years experience in the classroom. Most of the students in Banana Kelly High School's class of 2015 have been at the school longer than the majority of its teachers have been on the job.
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Members of the Garda Siochana Boxing Club of the Irish National Police Force stopped off at O'Neill's Pub and restaurant in Maspeth after flying into New York. The team will face off against the FDNY Bravest Boxing Club at Madison Square Garden.
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Manhattan: When my sister called me in 2004 to tell me our father had died, of Alzheimer's, in a hospital-connected nursing home, she confessed that she had asked a nurse whether she should call an ambulance when she found that Dad was virtually comatose and unable to accept the milkshake she had intended to spoon-feed him as usual. The nurse told her that an ambulance would take him to the emergency room to revive his heartbeat and maintain life, but otherwise there was nothing that would improve his condition.
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Maspeth: I was saddened but not surprised to learn a NICE bus fatally struck a pedestrian in Queens. I have taken the N4 bus from Jamaica to Baldwin and personally witnessed unprofessional or unsafe behavior by the operators.
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At Saint Stanislaus Kostka School in Maspeth, teaching is done with respect and concern for all nursery through grade 8 students who enter its doors. Knowledge, character building and a foundation in Christian values are special attributes.
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O'Neill's in Maspeth gathers New York City sports greats in fundraiser to support St. Jude's Research Hospital The Queens restaurant and bar, a hotspot for sports figures and actors over the years, will host a fundraiser for St. Jude's Research Hospital on Sunday from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. "It's a great cause," said restaurant co-owner George O'Neill. O'Neill's in Maspeth is hosting a fundraiser for St. Jude's Research Hospital on Sunday from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. The restaurant operation is a family affair.
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Central Park carriage-horse drivers donate to Daily News fund that has raised $210K for families of 2 slain NYPD cops The carriage-horse drivers, who are hard-pressed and have been fighting City Hall to stay in business, displayed breathtaking kindness by donating $2,000 to the fund established to aid the families of Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu. More checks from people across the city and in other parts of the country arrived at the News on Tuesday, bumping the total to $209,690.
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The blaze broke out just after 11:30 p.m. Friday in the basement of a three-story home on 66th St. near 50th Ave. in Maspeth, according to FDNY officials. Firefighter Frank Busener of Ladder 136, met with choking smoke and heavy fire in the rear of the building, found the victim unconscious near a stairwell.
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